The International Day for Monuments and Sites was established on 18 April 1982 by ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) with the aim of increasing public awareness to the diversity of heritage and efforts to protect and conserve it by highlighting its vulnerability. Ler mais International Day for Monuments and Sites
Casa das Artes Mário Elias – Mértola, 6 to 30 April 2022
We all know the important role Doctor Cláudio Figueiredo Torres played in Mértola. Much is written and said about his role in history, archaeology, heritage, museology and local development, combining heritage preservation and enhancement with knowledge of the territory and its people. Ler mais Exhibition – ‘Salazar 40 anos?’ (Salazar 40 years?) – Drawings by Cláudio Torres
The exhibition ‘The signs of everyday life – gestures, marks and symbols in the Al-Ândalus’, developed by the Mértola Archaeological Site, with the collaboration of the Mértola Museum, will be on display at the Arraiolos Carpet Interpretation Centre, in Arraiolos, from 11 March to 22 May 2022. Ler mais Exhibition ‘The signs of everyday life – gestures, marks and symbols in the Al-Ândalus’
The Main Church/Mosque of Mértola was the subject of restoration works in the 1940s, which allowed identifying the countless transformations experienced in this space. The demolitions carried out at the time revealed an important set of reused elements, such as Roman tombstones and medieval funerary stelae, among others, which are clear testimonies of the continuous changes it underwent. Ler mais A discoid stele from the Mértola Museum collection
Today’s society lives the immediate moment. The future is now and change is so rapid that we experience a feeling of living ephemeral, almost disposable moments. Ler mais Technology at the service of promotion in Museums: the case of Museu de Mértola (Mértola Museum)
The 'núcleo museológico de Arte Islâmica' (Islamic Art Museum), inaugurated almost 20 years ago, on 21 December 2001, is an example of the work that has been carried out in Mértola. Ler mais Museu de Mértola (Mértola Museum) – Islamic Art 20 years later…
This week’s Visão Magazine published Guia Visão – Hidden Treasures Museums where it selects and suggests visits to some museological units from northern, central and southern Portugal. Ler mais Mértola Museum on Guia Visão
The Southwestern Peninsular Archaeology Meetings (EASP) have been held in several locations in Portugal and Spain since 1993. They aim to present news from archaeological research, results from ongoing research projects, and to discuss relevant issues in the archaeology of the Southwestern Peninsula, strengthening professional ties among Iberian researchers. Ler mais 9th Meeting of Southwestern Peninsular Archaeology
Located on the top of an elongated and steep hill and articulated with an impressive belt of walls that hug the urban hull all the way to the downtown area, next to the Guadiana river, Mértola castle provided exceptional conditions for defending and controlling the surrounding territory. In the timeline, it succeeds previous fortified structures, in a structural evolution of imprecise contours, which chronologically extends from the Iron Age to the Almohad fortress that the knights of Santiago conquered in 1238. Ler mais National Castles Day – 7 October 2021 – Mértola Castle
